A small part of the reason people don’t want to have kids is maybe because their notion of “good parenting” is all this fake therapeutic-no fun-helicopter parenting to the rest Bullshit. In real big family communities people don’t have time for this shiz:
We incorporate kids into real lives, well lived. They aren’t stressful tests of our virtue. They are people under our authority and care. We throw big parties with our friends every so often & people get smashed and smoke and play poker & whatnot while kids run around & go feral.
All this crap about your life being over with kids is based on the worst notion of fake parenting. Bonfires, fishing trips, useful hobbies, exercise you like - kids like a lot of fun stuff. Kids propel your forward into the good stuff. No more play acting with yourself.
Your fake life is over, yes. But you’ll miss having a nice meal on the weekend with your kind-of-single, kind-of-friends instead of…your own flesh and blood? Again, I’d have to think about how to put all this for rhetorical effectiveness. But the mod anti-kids thing is moronic.
“*to the test”
“I don’t want to have kids because I’d rather have no real and meaningful lifelong relationships and loves or any deeper virtues—oh, and I also really want to die alone. Yep, a masturbatory life of shallow distraction for me, please.”
GTFO
You think you will have have worse or better relationships with adult friends if you are united by having kids—never mind of same age. Again, what part of effete meandering singlehood makes a single effing lick of sense for most people? This whole culture is fake ass news.
They don’t want you to grow up. They don’t want you to experience deep sorrows & deep joy. They don’t want you to love & live like men. They want you to COOM & CONSUME, be enslaved in the process, & grovel about how great it all is: “I [heart] comic book/girls boss movies!”
This culture is robbing you of your lifeblood. Of a fulfilling life. Of the adventure of the real. Of what it means to be human. And the sick thing is, humans can be tricked so gladly people cheer on their own slavery and sadness—and worship their demonic oppressors.
"There are two states in life: single and lonely, or married and annoyed."
—comedian Richard Jeni
Everyone needs to get over their damn selves.
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